What???? Are you kidding me??? Verse 21?!?
We’re just four verses from the finish line, Sisters! To God’s great glory, we’re doing this thing! I grinned from ear to ear two weeks ago when someone posted “Jesus wept” as her verse. That’s fair game! All of us could use a little catch from time to time. You guys bring me so much joy. May God cause His love and power to explode within you because you’ve worked so hard and fought so many distractions to get to this point.
OK, Girlfriends, here’s mine:
Beth, Houston. “Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God. Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:10-11 The NET Bible
Let me hear yours!
Stay the course, Sweet Things. You are so dearly loved and planned for by God.
Elizabeth, Gainesville, GA
“Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.”
Proverbs 31:31 (NIV)
“Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.” Psalm 145:13 ESV
Karen. Amarillo, Tx.
John 11:41 (HCSB) So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You heard Me.
Nesha: Mechanicsville, VA
‘Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.’
Psalm 48:1 NIV
Charlie
Mississippi
Galatians 5:5 NIV
But by faith, we eagerly await through the Spirit the Righteousness for which we hope.
Hannah, La Grange, TX “We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” 1 John 2:3-4 NIV
jamieb, Corbin,Ky
1Corinthians 13:5-6 NIV
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Melissa Stauffer, Centreville, Michgian
“Has not my hand made all these things,and so they came into being?” declares the LORD. “These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit,
and who tremble at my word.
Isaiah 66:2 NIV
Rose, Dallas
Psalm 68:19-20a, NIV
Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. Our God is a God who saves.
Ola Mae, Cedar Park TX Psalms 139:17 NIV How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
Tina
H-town
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?
Matthew 6:27 (NIV)
Give thanks to the Lord, and proclaim His greatness. Let the whole world know what He has done! 1 Chronicles 16:8 (NLT)
He must become greater, I must become less.
John 3:30 NIV
Charlotte, Easley SC “If anyone belongs to Christ, there is a new creation. The old things have gone; everything is made new!”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NCV)
Mei, Easley SC:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1 NIV
Carolyn, Atlanta
Hebrews 11:1 NIV
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Lauren, New Braunfels, TX
I will praise You forever for what You have done; in Your name I will hope for Your name is good. I will praise You in the presence of Your saints. Ps. 52:9
John 14:3
and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto Myself that where I am, there ye may be also.
James 1:16 & 17
Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
Bev, Austin
“Fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.” 2 Tim 1:6b ESV
And they were calling to one another:
“Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord Almighty;
The whole earth is full of His Glory.”
Isaiah 6:3
Linda, Austin, TX
Psalm 34:7 NIV
The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him,
and he delivers them.
Rebecca
Boise, Idaho
NIV
John 1:18
No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
James 3:13 NIV
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
Cindy Gandy
Hazlehurst, MS
Psalm 23:3
he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.
Kathy Cupit
Hazlehurst, MS
Psalm 23:5 (KJV)
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Julie, Waco
“I will pitch my tent in the land of hope.” Acts 2:26 Message
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon forged against you will prevail.
Rosebud Atlanta, TExas
Give thanks to the Lord, and proclaim His greatness. Let the whole world know what He has done!
1 Chronicles 16:8
Stephanie, QC, Tx: 10) Be still and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! Psalm 46:10 (NKJV)
Matia, Fort Worth, TX
“For it is by grace you have been saved, though faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8-9
Anita
Austin, TX
With the tongue we praise our lord and father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
James 3:9 NIV
2 Timothy 2:6 The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.
Angie – Houston, TX
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14
“You are the God who performs miracles; you display Your power among the peoples.”
Psalm 77:14 (NIV)
“With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.”
~ James 3:9 (NIV)
Hollie
Granbury, TX
Proverbs 30:7-9 (NIV)
“Two things I ask of you, LORD;
do not refuse me before I die:
Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Otherwise, I may have too much and
disown you and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God.
Georgine
Austin, TX
Bethany, Tyler
Lamentations 3:24
I say: The Lord is my portion, therefore I will put my hope in him.
April, Boerne, TX
Submit yourselves then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7 NIV
Mandy
China Spring, TX
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14 NIV
Lauren, Phnom Penh
“I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 (ESV)
“Praise be to the Lord,
to God our Saviour,
who daily bears our burdens.”
Psalm 68:19 (NIV)